Historical grain volumes are not mass percentages. Procurement is not proof of a fixed mash bill, and these instructions are not a validated modern production protocol.
Mash recipes; supplied 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
An 1823 newspaper supplies sweet-mash and backset methods; Crowgey retrospectively names the latter sour mash. Later procurement evidence distinguishes grain preferences.
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Mash recipes
Read against supplied PDF text and images. Locators are PDF screens, not printed pages. Verified means faithful source capture, not independent historical corroboration. Historical grain volumes are not mass percentages. Procurement is not proof of a fixed mash bill, and these instructions are not a validated modern production protocol.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
Evidence
An 1823 newspaper supplies sweet-mash and backset methods; Crowgey retrospectively names the latter sour mash. Later procurement evidence distinguishes grain preferences.
Location and context
No access; Mash recipes; supplied PDF screens 118–119. These are not printed-page numbers. Edition: 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
Annotation
Historical grain volumes are not mass percentages. Procurement is not proof of a fixed mash bill, and these instructions are not a validated modern production protocol.
Verification and use
Historical grain volumes are not mass percentages. Procurement is not proof of a fixed mash bill, and these instructions are not a validated modern production protocol.
Faithful source capture checked against supplied text and images. This does not mean that every cited-through primary record has been independently verified.
Literature note: Crowgey — Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking. Citation:
Crowgey — Sweet mash and backset recipes.